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Currant Jelly

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Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Currants
  2. a pint of juice
  3. a pound of sugar
  4. Water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Pick over the currants with care.
  2. Put them in a stone jar, and set it into a kettle of boiling water.
  3. Let it boil till the fruit is very soft.
  4. Strain it through a sieve.
  5. Then run the juice through a jelly-bag.
  6. Put a pound of sugar to a pint of juice, and boil it together five minutes.
  7. Set it in the sun a few days.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
  • Kettle